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By John Christie (editor) and Sally Shuttleworth (editor)

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9780719025679, titled "Nature Transfigured : Science and Literature, 1700-1900: Science and Literature, 1700-1900" | Manchester Univ Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $55.00

Product Description: Book by Slade, Joseph W., Lee, Judith Yaross

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9780813801629 | 1 edition (Iowa State Pr, February 28, 1990), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Book by Slade, Joseph W.

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By Frederick Amrine (editor)

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9780792301332 | Kluwer Academic Pub, March 1, 1990, cover price $239.00

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Product Description: The Twain Meet describes the dynamic relationship that exists between two seemingly dissimilar endeavors - the physical sciences and poetry. The book traces the evolving principles of the physical sciences over a span of two thousand years...read more

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9780820409535 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 1, 1990, cover price $66.95 | About this edition: The Twain Meet describes the dynamic relationship that exists between two seemingly dissimilar endeavors - the physical sciences and poetry.

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Product Description:     In an elegant translation, Mary McAllester Jones brings to English-speaking readers the writings of a singular French philosopher of science whose rich intellectual legacy is too little known.    Gaston Bachelard, who died in 1962, left us twelve works on the philosophy of science, nine on the poetic imagination, and two on time and consciousness, written in an image-laden style that rejected traditional academic discourse in favor of a subversive, allusive, highly metaphorical way of thinking and writing...read more

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9780299127909 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition:     In an elegant translation, Mary McAllester Jones brings to English-speaking readers the writings of a singular French philosopher of science whose rich intellectual legacy is too little known.

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9780299127947 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Gaston Bachelard, who died in 1962, left 12 works on the philosophy of science, nine on the poetic imagination, and two on time and consciousness, written in an image-laden style that rejected traditional academic discourse in favour of a subversive, allusive, highly metaphorical way of thinking and writing.

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Product Description: The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural studies of the new paradigm of chaotics, forging connections between contemporary literature and the science of chaos...read more

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9780226321431 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities.

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Product Description: In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret Atwood, and Donald Barthelme...read more

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9780807820247 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics.

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9780807843659 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $35.00

Product Description: James Krasner demonstrates how Charles Darwin's representational techniques transformed his opulently "entangled" nature into a formless, psychologically interior landscape. The abundance and variety of evolutionary nature required Darwin and the nature writers who followed him to portray nature as though seen through a physical eye...read more

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9780195073317 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 24, 1992, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: James Krasner demonstrates how Charles Darwin's representational techniques transformed his opulently "entangled" nature into a formless, psychologically interior landscape.

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Product Description: " Literature and science are two disciplines are two disciplines often thought to be unrelated, if not actually antagonistic. But Robert J. Scholnick points out that these areas of learning, up through the beginning of the nineteenth century, "were understood as parts of a unitary endeavor...read more

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9780813117850 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 5, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: " Literature and science are two disciplines are two disciplines often thought to be unrelated, if not actually antagonistic.

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Product Description: The existence of a separation between science and literature has long been taken for granted. This study shows that in science language functions in very much the same way as in literature: it is rhetorical in that it persuades readers to the author's point of view, and it is poetical in that with its metaphors and other figures of speech it shapes the experience of author and reader...read more

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9789004096448 | Brill Academic Pub, September 1, 1992, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: The existence of a separation between science and literature has long been taken for granted.

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9780934223201 | Lehigh Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress...read more

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9780226520865 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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Product Description: Nowadays medicine and literature are widely seen as falling on different sides of the "two cultures" divide. This was not so in the 18th century when doctors, scientists, writers and artists formed a well-integrated educated elite and often collaborated with each other...read more
By Marie Mulvey-Roberts (editor) and Roy Porter (editor)

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9780415070829 | Routledge, May 1, 1993, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Nowadays medicine and literature are widely seen as falling on different sides of the "two cultures" divide.

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Product Description: Book by Zanine, Louis J.

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9780812231717 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Book by Zanine, Louis J.

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By Marina Benjamin (editor)

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9780813519821 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $59.00 | About this edition:  .

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9780813519838 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition:  .

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Product Description: Taking as a starting point the embeddedness of all disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiry - since interdisciplinarity is itself not a unitary phenomenon but encompasses many different knowledge practices embedded in widely differing political, economic and ideological constituencies - the essays in this volume explore in different ways some of the conversations currently taking place across disciplinary boundaries in the exciting new field of literature and science...read more
By Donald Bruce and Anthony Purdy (editor)

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9789051837629 | Rodopi Bv Editions, February 1, 1994, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Taking as a starting point the embeddedness of all disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiry - since interdisciplinarity is itself not a unitary phenomenon but encompasses many different knowledge practices embedded in widely differing political, economic and ideological constituencies - the essays in this volume explore in different ways some of the conversations currently taking place across disciplinary boundaries in the exciting new field of literature and science.

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Product Description: You Know My Method surveys the century following Edgar Allan Poe’s invention of the fictional detective in 1841. The same century saw the development of the idea of the scientist as a person who defined himself by his use of a disciplined method of inquiry...read more

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9780879726393 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, March 1, 1994, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: You Know My Method surveys the century following Edgar Allan Poe’s invention of the fictional detective in 1841.

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9780879726409 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, March 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: You Know My Method surveys the century following Edgar Allan Poe’s invention of the fictional detective in 1841.

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Product Description: Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy traces the artistic treatment of mechanization among two generations of Southern writers. The book studies the artistic and philosophical responses to the increasing mechanization of the South in the work of Faulkner, Tate, O'Connor, Styron, Gaines, and Percy...read more

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9780820418568 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy traces the artistic treatment of mechanization among two generations of Southern writers.

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9780801848018 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $55.00

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9780801849831 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: Today, the humanities seem severed from the sciences. Writers, artists and the ordinary thinking citizen cannot readily understand the sciences that have reshaped modern life. Scientists in turn, find critical theory difficult and elusive...read more

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9780522846140 | Melbourne Univ Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Today, the humanities seem severed from the sciences.

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Product Description: A fascinating cultural history, these splendid essays on the three primary colors--blue, yellow, and red--extend to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological, and emotional dimensions of each color...read more

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9780805031058 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1994, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Three interrelated essays on the primary colors presents the artistic, aesthetic, emotional, and economic dimensions of each color in an anecdotal format of poetry and humor

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9780805047011 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1996), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A fascinating cultural history, these splendid essays on the three primary colors--blue, yellow, and red--extend to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological, and emotional dimensions of each color.

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9780299143503 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 15, 1994, cover price $52.00

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9780299143541 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 15, 1994, cover price $22.95

Product Description: Scholarly essays dealing with scientific and cultural theory in the post modernist world through the prism of music, literature and language with a focus on the natural world and its creative interpreters. Among the literary figures discussed are Apuleius, Shakespeare, Kafka, Muir, Jimenez, Machado, Vallejo and Chenier...read more

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9781883255954 | Intl Scholars Pubns, January 1, 1995, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Scholarly essays dealing with scientific and cultural theory in the post modernist world through the prism of music, literature and language with a focus on the natural world and its creative interpreters.

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9781883255947, titled "The Metaphysics of Insect Life and Other Essays" | Intl Scholars Pubns, January 1, 1995, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: Scholarly essays dealing with scientific and cultural theory in the post modernist world through the prism of music, literature and language with a focus on the natural world and its creative interpreters.

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